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Leigh West24th December 2020 Children know that the North Pole is home to Santa’s workshop and is bustling during the...
Arabidopsis, or rock cress, is used by scientists as a model flowering plant A farmer can remember what has happened last...
Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman synthesised LSD for the first time in 1938 while attempting to produce a blood stimulant for...
Time is running out. With the Rio Olympics only 70 days away, thousands of people will be congregating in the Brazilian...
Next time you accidentally swallow a button or your favourite piece of lego, don’t worry; soon you would be able...
The Natural History Museum in London has a rich history of engaging members of the public with volunteer efforts. In autumn...
Much of the technology we take for granted would have seemed miraculous even 30 years ago. The majority of these...
A new study from the Dresden University of Technology in Germany has shown results in favour of the working operation...
The biosphere of pop music When asked to define the nature of time, Saint Augustine famously confessed that “If no-one...
Wax model by sculptor Clemente Susini from the Specola museum; Susini was employed by Paolo Mascagni to model his anatomical...
The hole in the ozone layer, 2010 “MASSIVE ozone hole will increase CANCER rates”, blares the Daily Mail. “No-zone!” screams...
I remember the first time it happened with painful clarity. The summer sun had burned the Cornish sand a brilliant...
When Erin Pizzey set up the first women’s refuge in 1971, she made the matter of domestic violence a societal...
A recent paper published in PLoS One has investigated the potential side-effects of aspartame to self-declared ‘aspartame sensitive’ individuals, those...
The Himalayas (pictured) tend to be 'hourglass' shaped when looking at habitat availability, in comparison to 'diamond-shaped' (the Rockies), 'pyramid-shaped'...
Captain Sarah Deal, the first female Marine Corps helicopter pilot, flying a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter “Look, we exist and...
What happens when we send bacteria into space? That’s the question that the team from Project MERCCURI, based in the...
Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll being treated during the RBS 6 Nations rugby union match between England and Ireland in February...
Glofish - zebrafish carrying a colour gene from the sea anemone Scientists claim they can now anticipate how species will...
Predicting Nature’s fury In April 2010, an angry Icelander wreaked havoc in Europe. For around 2 weeks, over 10 million...
With tablets and smart phones always readily to hand, our post-millennial babies have thrived on rapidly evolving technology, developing into...
Screen shot of brain waves of a patient during Slow Wave Sleep (stage 3), when Delta waves begin to appear....
“It often seems to me that the night is even more richly coloured than the day, coloured with the most...
The largest threat to maintaining global food supply is the very act of farming, says a new study published recently in...
Julius Caesar’s health problems may have been caused by strokes, not epilepsy, according to recent research from Imperial College. The...
I don’t when, where or how I’m going to die. But I know I would like a good death. I...
A team at Imperial has discovered a new class of human antibodies against the dengue virus, which could be used...
Pop down to the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre for a night of intelligent comedy. Join a host of researchers and two...
As the second year biologists and biomedical scientists journey on into their immunology course this term, I can’t say that...
